In about 9 months, Americans will come face to face with ObamaCare. It will happen when they sit down to fill out their tax returns. My guess is that most people will be angry.

ObamaCare and the IRS will work hand in hand in the implementation of the law, as Byron York points out today:

"A look at the text of the health care law reveals that much of it consists of amending the Internal Revenue Code to give the IRS more power. When Obamacare goes fully into effect in January, every American will have to prove to the IRS that he or she has "qualifying" health coverage, meaning coverage with a list of features approved by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. That will be done by submitting a document to the IRS, something like a W-2, to confirm coverage."

There is more. In simple language, the IRS will be the manager of the new law.

The IRS will ask you questions that you thought heretofore belonged in the very confidential relationship between doctors and patients.

The IRS will also need to hear about "raises" and changes in your financial condition.

Didn't a bunch of colonists throw tea in the harbor the last time that something like this happenned?

The IRS and HHS will monitor the people through a "database," or a huge intrusion into your personal, financial and health information.

Again, my good guess is that most Democrats who voted for this monstrosity will shut off their phones next spring. They won't like what voters are telling them.

The author is wrong. The new tax for not having health coverage will first appear on the 2014 tax return which most people will file in the spring of 2015.

I am a tax preparer for one of the largest tax preparation companies. At least half of my clients had not heard about this tax. I could tell by their reaction that many of them voted for Obozo. I stay away from politics with my clients but I could tell that many were having second thoughts about Obamacare.

9
posted on 05/16/2013 10:18:13 AM PDT
by DFG
("Dumb, Dependent, and Democrat is no way to go through life" - Louie Gohmert (R-TX))

And Obama will rail against it. After all, it's not like the Low-Information Voters will think he's associated with it! Why, they'll just shake their heads, and say "He's doin' his best, poor man - look at that gray hair!"

Then it should bode well for the 2016 elections. And if Hillary is the Dem nominee, the GOP can pin ObamaCare on her. After all, she came up with the idea (HillaryCare) before Obama was ever on the scene.

You said... “Then turn in your Freeper card and off yourself. Spare us the demoralizing spew.”

Sometimes I wonder if we are finished as a country and when you look out at the landscape, it seems hopeless. Then I think about how Washington must have felt in those cold winters when his men were cold, starving, not paid, and the morale was low.

I never get why some Freepers think BHO is some sort of God. Watching these scandals and his handling of them tells me his regime won’t be taken down in one fell swoop, but more of a death by a thousand cuts. There are more shoes to fall. It’s darkest before the dawn.

19
posted on 05/16/2013 11:12:52 AM PDT
by LMAO
("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush)

Make no mistake Ubomba is only a figure head. He alone can do nothing to affect our lives. When Washington looked around at his bleak landscape he also saw his countrymen who surrounded him. He saw good, moral men who believed in something. He saw virtuous people fighting for what is right.

I feel no desparation when I look at Ubomba. I feel completely lost when I see my countrymen who elected him to office TWICE.

We have lost. The Constitution is meaningless. This grand experiment in liberty is over.

Sorry if you don't like how that feels but read my tagline.

27
posted on 05/16/2013 12:03:06 PM PDT
by nitzy
(You can avoid reality but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.)

A lot of people think he was blackmailed. He first voted to declare obammacare illegal, then between that vote and the official announcement months later, he changed his mind. Some think it has to do with the feds looking into his adoption records of his 2 adopted foreign children.

Sometimes I wonder if we are finished as a country and when you look out at the landscape, it seems hopeless. Then I think about how Washington must have felt in those cold winters when his men were cold, starving, not paid, and the morale was low.

It's an apt analogy, and I do understand how some could have become so demoralized, that they're now convinced of the enemy's omnipotence. But it's not true. The enemies of this country aren't omnipotent by a long shot. Not even close.

They're a tragic bunch of total incompetents, who just happen to be sitting in stations of great power and influence. It doesn't mean they can even shoot straight - and they can't. Just look at the mess they're making of every single thing they touch.

An angry, resolute, and fearless group of Americans who won't back down, is all it will take to make these dumb bells start walking into lamp posts and oncoming traffic.

38
posted on 05/16/2013 4:28:31 PM PDT
by Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)

You said... “It's an apt analogy, and I do understand how some could have become so demoralized, that they're now convinced of the enemy's omnipotence. But it's not true. The enemies of this country aren't omnipotent by a long shot. Not even close.

They're a tragic bunch of total incompetents, who just happen to be sitting in stations of great power and influence. It doesn't mean they can even shoot straight - and they can't. Just look at the mess they're making of every single thing they touch.

An angry, resolute, and fearless group of Americans who won't back down, is all it will take to make these dumb bells start walking into lamp posts and oncoming traffic”

The only thing carrying this administration is a cheerleading press and to a lesser extent, a confused GOP. Nothing more. And that can only go on for so long

39
posted on 05/18/2013 3:48:58 PM PDT
by LMAO
("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush)

The only thing carrying this administration is a cheerleading press and to a lesser extent, a confused GOP. Nothing more. And that can only go on for so long

Well, there are also the 'faithful' in government, academia, and the online left-wing culture which help to prop it up.

But you're right. It takes a lot of work on the part of Barry's cheerleaders to keep him from sinking. A great President wouldn't need anyone's help to garner true admiration and loyalty from the people.

40
posted on 05/18/2013 6:39:01 PM PDT
by Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)

Soros and people like him rely on a broken system that is not fully understood. They need people to view the world through a false paradigm that gives false hope. If people called spades, spades they would be forced to do something about it.

Do you think that our current system of government is similar to the government laid out in the Constitution of the United States? You can't know anything about the founding of this country and say that we currently have the system which was designed for us.

From the power balance between the 3 branches, to the power balance between the levels of government, to the role of the courts, military, president, senate, free markets, property, religion, education, etc...There is no similarity.

You can keep your head in the sand and waive your flag and think you can change the country inch by inch back to what was intended if you want.

It ain't gonna happen.

80% of the American public have no idea what principals are laid out in the Constitution. Of those that do, 50% think that they are wrong and old fashioned and no longer useful.

Was Ben Franklin "working for Soros" when he implied that we may be unable to keep the Republic?

Q - Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?

A- A Republic, if you can keep it.

Sorry, Mr Franklin. We couldn't.

42
posted on 05/20/2013 9:43:28 AM PDT
by nitzy
(You can avoid reality but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.)

Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.